Re: Breaking Path/Polygon Data into Pieces

From: Volkan YAZICI <yazicivo(at)ttnet(dot)net(dot)tr>
To: Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Breaking Path/Polygon Data into Pieces
Date: 2006-02-28 19:16:47
Message-ID: 20060228191647.GA159@alamut
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On Feb 27 03:10, Michael Fuhr wrote:
> PostGIS has geometry accessors that might work. You'd need to be
> using PostGIS geometry types instead of the PostgreSQL types.
>
> http://postgis.refractions.net/docs/ch06.html
>
> Are the following examples anything like what the user in tr-general
> was looking for?

Yes. As I understand from your examples, they're quite efficient for
related purposes I mentioned. But wouldn't it worth adding a simple
part() function for this? Because, with this feature, people won't need
to use another project for such a basic operation on path and polygon
types which are supported by PostgreSQL by default.

Regards.

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